AMITT/techniques/T0051.md

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Technique T0051: Fabricate social media comment

  • Summary: Use government-paid social media commenters, astroturfers, chat bots (programmed to reply to specific key words/hashtags) influence online conversations, product reviews, web-site comment forums. (2017 example) the FCC was inundated with nearly 22 million public comments on net neutrality (many from fake accounts)

  • Belongs to tactic stage: TA09

Incident Descriptions given for this incident
I00033 China 50cent Army fabricated social media comment
Counters Response types
C00008 Create shared fact-checking database D4 Degrade
C00011 Media literacy. Games to identify fake news D2 Deny
C00012 Platform regulation D2 Deny
C00014 Real-time updates to fact-checking database D4 Degrade
C00016 Censorship D2 Deny
C00044 Keep people from posting to social media immediately D3 Disrupt
C00046 Marginalise and discredit extremist groups D4 Degrade
C00048 Name and Shame Influencers D7 Deter
C00074 Identify and delete or rate limit identical content D2 Deny
C00085 Mute content D3 Disrupt
C00086 Distract from noise with addictive content D4 Degrade
C00087 Make more noise than the disinformation D4 Degrade
C00122 Content moderation D2 Deny
C00176 Improve Coordination amongst stakeholders: public and private D7 Deter

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